To cheer you up a bit, here is Tom Scott talking about another ridiculous bridge, albeit quite a bit smaller.

He also allocated 15 million to the project back in 2020.

Manuel Moroun ran a television commercial years ago explicitly addressed to Trump begging him to help stop this new bridge.

The Moroun family owns the Ambassador Bridge, collecting a $50 toll from each of a few hundred trucks that cross it daily. They also own the duty free shops on either side I believe. Of course they have opposed a publicly owned bridge since the day it was proposed.

It’s not surprising Trump would be stoking the flames here. Support an old billionaire buddy’s family while simultaneously distracting from both the Epstein files and ICE? Three birds with one stone. Unfortunately for him, the time to stop the Gordie Howe was before it was built, not after billions have been spent.

This might result in delays, but the only thing coming from that is more resentment from the people that paid for it.

Okay, you right, I wrong, Merry Christmas.

I didn’t pretend marriage is universally innocent. I said it’s a tradition just like hanging colourful lights on a tree within a home in December, and that it’s just as aggressive to state everyone be rid of their decorations as that the concept of marriage should be abolished.

I didn’t say I thought you were wrong - I said the initial comment read a bit hot off the stove.

With any luck this will lead to small cars with small price tags being made available in Canada.

There are less hyperbolic ways to say marriage shouldn’t carry various legal benefits over civil unions just because it’s more or less become a tradition.

This reads like someone showing up for Christmas dinner with the family and tearing down the decorations because they don’t like how commercialized the holiday has become.

Why do you think baskets should be required? To prevent theft? This has been implemented for a decade now, evidently thievery isn’t much of a concern.

There are no doubt multiple factors at play, but when things are easy and quality of life is decent, the honour system works.

That could work also, but not all shops have carts, and people don’t always need a basket. It’s common enough to scan things and pop them directly into a bag you brought, skipping the need for a basket altogether.

It was more accurately described as computer vision at the time, but your memory is right. They wanted to get to 5% of sales being human reviewed, but it was more like 70%.

What’s funny about Amazon’s efforts for Just Walk Out is that checkout free shopping already existed. Simply by letting customers carry a handheld scanner and payment terminal around the store with them.

Not for nothing, but there’s no quote threatening to fly into Canadian airspace if these jets don’t get bought. Only a statement that if Canada doesn’t buy them, another use will have to be found. Which is of course what would happen - they aren’t going to just park these things. Even looking at it as a veiled threat, it’s pretty vague.

I’m not sure what Lockheed expects when the cost has gone up nearly 50% in three years. I wish Saab good fortune making domestic alternatives.

Oh to live in the parallel universe where those local and state governments tell them to pack up their data centre and shove off once their carnival leases expire. The sonic schadenfreude would be felt around the globe.

Turbine blades last twenty to thirty years. What short lifespan are referring to?

Funny how something not being ‘profitable’ for six weeks becomes newsworthy once it returns to the black.

These coal plants are in their last few years of operation as a stopgap until enough renewable infrastructure is built to replace them. I prefer these things to be used for a bit longer than have more methane power plants constructed. Evidently Germany feels the same given the reduction of 20GW to 10GW capacity over the next six years.

For anyone as unfamiliar with Danish politicians as I am, that picture is of Morten Messerschmidt at Mar-a-Lago last year, and the person that told Trump to fuck off is Anders Vistisen. Both of the Danish People’s Party, but not the same person that’s let themselves go.

Sidenote, I dislike that political parties are allowed to name themselves. Like MBech wrote, that party doesn’t care about people at all. Unless of course, they look so homogeneous that someone across the world would mistake them for the same person.

This is a nice example of how starting a business doesn’t mean you can run it. The previous owner went to cut hours, sold the place shortly after, and now it’s more successful while cooperatively operating. People should realise that working with their staff is more effective than floating above them.

That’s what you choose to focus on? I’m not going to get into the minutiae of what a law is.

My overarching point here was that this omission may have been a purposeful tactic, and that I don’t believe a misstep taints the institution as a whole. I attempted to bring this to a polite close once you confirmed the inflexibility of your point of view.

Consider yourself to have won this conversation if that’s what you need.

The world isn’t as black and white as you seem to perceive it. Even saying the Smithsonian ‘folded’ is hyperbolic. They seem to have simply complied with a law, just like they have fire suppression, first aid kits, railings at staircases, etc.

It’s fine and dandy for a person to think and believe they’d never commit an act of violence, but if they see someone trying to strangle a child, that person isn’t going to shrug their shoulders and say ‘I have my principles’ while they go about their merry way.

Evidently you and I are of two different schools of thought, but nonetheless it’s appreciated that you answered my question.

Cheers for that.

“At every one of New York City’s darkest periods, nurses showed up to work. They’re value is not negotiable, and their value is not up for debate,” Mamdani said.

I like this guy more and more as the days go by.

In other words you see this as Theseus’s museum. That’s an interesting idea. I don’t think changing one board fundamentally changes the ship, though I’m getting the impression you disagree.

It’s worth noting the plaque wasn’t changed to read ‘Trump was never impeached’, and so there isn’t a direct lie in this circumstance. This is more of a lie by omission, however even that is pretty loose as the museum likely feels they can’t legally reference the impeachments anymore due to EO14253 which explicitly effects the Smithsonian.

I do agree with your sentiment in that over enough time and alteration, a museum could become a place of advertising and not culture or history. However this brings me back to the question I raised that you have not answered twice now.

Changing this plaque can be the start of a slippery slope, yes. However, if you were stood at the summit of K2 and group of thugs walked up from behind and presented you the choice of either taking a step down the steep side or being picked up and thrown off the mountainside to inevitable death, what do you choose?